In many regions of France, building to standards designed to protect residents in the event of an earthquake is required by law. This is particularly true in mountainous regions and across much of the Mediterranean basin.
But for our company, applying them has always been a simple matter of common sense, as our construction system makes this precaution very easy to incorporate To be sure, we have even put one of our homes through a full-scale test (½ scale) that reproduced conditions far more violent than those of the strongest earthquake ever experienced in the world. The result was even better than we had imagined, as the house stayed in place and suffered only minor damage, without losing a single tile!
